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the late General Pitt Rivers, F.R.S., many fragments of hand- 
made pottery, identical with the two qualities of these coarse 
urns, were frequently found in connection with “ lathe-turned ” 
pottery and other Roman relics. These urns, though, are the 
first and only instance I know of complete specimens of this 
type of pottery occurring with Roman remains. ‘The above facts 
point to the inference that the fabrication of the primitive, hand- 
made type of pottery long survived the introduction of the potter’s 
wheel in the South of England; and, hence, another difficulty 
arises, namely, that of assigning an exact period to any specimen 
of hand-made pottery one happens to find out on the Downs. 
I fear by this time the question as to the probable age of the 
camping grounds seems bristled with difficulties. But let us now 
take a retrospective view of the whole situation. We have seen 
it is not an infrequent occurrence to find handmade pottery, 
cooking stones, and the smaller flint implements with Roman and 
the so-called Late Celtic remains ; and, that where they are thus 
discovered, they are invariably accompanied by numerous 
fragments of the pottery of the periods in question. ‘The latter 
remark equally applies to the Bronze Age, for, wherever the 
Bronze-using Briton went, he secms to have taken his pots and 
pans with him; and, if we may judge by the multitude of the 
shards occurring with his remains, the ceremony of *‘ washing up,” 
in those days, must have often been attended with drastic results. 
Now I have been constantly on the look-out for the 
occurrence of pottery, in any shape or condition, on the camping 
grounds, in the hope it might afford some clue as to the period 
to which they belong. But, with one solitary exception, I have 
entirely failed in this respect. The exception was the discovery 
of a small fragment of Romano-British pottery on the camping 
ground near the Dyke Road Reservoir; but the utter invalidity 
of such a piece of surface evidence was singularly demonstrated 
by the immediate discovery, on the same spot, of another 
fragment of pottery which bore the magic inscription that a 
certain brewery was located in such-and-such a place. This 
combined discovery gave rise to the remarkable query as to 
whether the camping ground in question belonged to the period 
of the Roman Occupation or to the flourishing period of 
Tamplin’s Fine Ales! 
After such a preamble of conflicting theories, I will, in 
conclusion, venture my opinion as to the age of the camping 
grounds. ‘The fact that the flint axes found on these sites are 
purely Neolithic in character, and that they occur nowhere so 
abundantly as in association with the smaller implements and 
cooking stones, coupled with the strong negative evidence which 
exists in the marked absence of pottery of any shape or kind, 
seems, to me, to point to only one conclusion, namely, that these 
camping grounds are distinctly those of the Neolithic tribes. 
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